My point is changing providers is a fruitless endeavour. Your phone number is probably sourced and sold several times/day. Switch carriers and they’ll do the same thing. Why? Because no one will stop them, and most people don’t know or even care, so why wouldn’t they? And your phone number is already out there anyway, there’s no taking it back.
Techlore
Privacy Guides
NBTV
Darknet Diaries
Signal Jam
Opt out
Sure, and we’ve always compromised on the 2 as a society. But we continually trend more and more towards prevention rather than privacy and sovereignty.
I appreciate the summary but the full story is worth reading/watching/listening, IMO (I listened). Especially regarding the legal details. About how he was convicted on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, even though he’s not a bank and handled no money at any time, and even though legal precedent says otherwise.
Maybe Trump will pardon him.
Ok but that is a separate discussion.
Get a mini PC with Intel N200. $200 more or less. Install your preferred Linux with KDE Plasma Bigscreen. Use Waydroid and Aurora Store to install streaming apps. That’s the best I got.
I mean if you consider the value of not being made by Meta and not having fucking ads plastered all over it, the value looks a lot closer.
That time the election actually was rigged (and also in 2000)
Honestly everywhere sounds like an awful place at this point. Freedom is a thing of the past. A thing from a time whence literally everything we did wasn’t tracked, and in order to exist in society, you’re expected to submit to the tracking.
I’m not disagreeing with you but what would happen back then is that they simply wouldn’t stop the crime.
At some point we need to decide if giving up all semblance of personal privacy is worth stopping some of that. I vote no enthusiastically. We just have to accept that some of that crime won’t be stopped and law enforcement will have to work harder.
I wasn’t suggesting they leaked only partial phone numbers?
Doesn’t matter what phone company you have, Whatsapp already has your phone number and they allow anyone to scrape it.
But really there’s so many different ways they can get your #. No way to stop that realistically. I change my phone # every year or so.
Anyone can access 3.5B phone numbers on WhatsApp. Meta says this is not a problem and phone numbers are “basic publicly available information”.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/18/whatsapp-security-flaw-exposed-3-5b-phone-numbers-including-yours/
https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/3-5b-whatsapp-numbers-were-131821434.html
https://techlore.tech/whatsapp-leaked-3-5-billion-phone-numbers-surveillance-report/
I don’t engage with the community at all. I don’t buy games on Epic because their launcher is ass. And last I checked they don’t even have reviews for games. They don’t require disclaimers for anti-consumer measures either like Valve does for 3rd party accounts, Denuvo, etc. and they even had the balls to criticize Valve’s requirements for AI disclosure.
The fact that their CEO is openly anti-Linux is another good reason.
They just come off to me like a very anti-consumer company, like most all other corporations.
Valve didn’t design the Steam Deck’s chip
No but they did choose it, specifically. There were certainly more powerful options available, ones that the Steam Deck’s imitators used, but they wanted a good balance of efficiency. One that’s yet to be topped.
Valve just bought AMD’s excess stock. That’s why the Steam Machine uses such an unusual and unbalanced CPU/GPU combo.
Source?
No one said it was significant.
Read it again:
Physical software and hardware sales
I listened to the podcast about this one. Apparently when everyone said to keep it out, he insisted that it was sentient and that it would literally hurt it’s feelings, so he couldn’t.
LOL at the CEO who agreed to be interviewed and then said he wasn’t surprised that they were able to prompt engineer it in a matter of hours, but we promise it’s gonna be so much better later!